Our current system allows criminal fraud by corporate actors. A class action suit will cost less than the profit made from intentional fraud and Courts love to claim that a corporate shield protects these actions.

Perhaps it shouldn't.

Until it does don't trust any corporate promises without preagreed consequences.

My guess is that you went to college at least 20 years ago.

No, China is an authoritarian state.

Maoist China was totalitarian. Modern China is not.

Chinese people have the same freedoms as you do, except for challenging authority.

The Chinese nuclear industry has a solid safety record.

Their nuclear regulations seem to be working well.

The AI says, "I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives."

So, it advocates a very light sentence, or none at all.

I just got the latest 15 yesterday and there are new text scaling bugs and they broke the Do Not Disturb tile. Battery drain jumped too.

Maybe they could take advantage of everybody being too broke to buy a phone and do a bug-fix release.

And breathe a little more.

P.S. There are only a dozen people outside of Silicone Valley who want a Gemini AI Phone.

I see news reports linking to Twitter posts all day long but I think I've seen two Threads links ever and maybe last summer at that?

Is there a world in which these are relevant?

I'm not saying they're not but if they were super popular with Knitting Magazine I'd have no idea so I wonder who is using it.

They suddenly care about the NSA because a Populist is in charge of it now.

They probably freaked out about Regan too before Poppy Bush had him shot.

Since then they've been comfortable.

More importantly there were tons of quality community patches that Redis wouldn't take that were rapidly merged into Valkey (per last year's articles).

So you'd need a nontechnical reason to go back to Redis. Dev support contracts or whatever that probably include a nontoxic license.

Isn't the Galactic Current Sheet much closer?

Astronomers have been observing micronovas as the stars get coated with dust and then burp as the solar systems pass through it.

Ours seems to oscillate through it every 6000 years or so. Effects last about a week per ancient accounts.

Ground all the things, y'all.

China isn't blessed with much arable cropland. Pigs eat quite a bit.

Their dependence on rice patties is an example of a workaround.

Bonus: they're farming crayfish with the rice now which makes more food and almost eliminates some chemical herbicide and pesticide use.

Crayfish is delicious. Fresh - frozen isn't too good but if you're near a bayou in the Spring by all means eat to excess.

Yes, requiring placebo-controlled trials for drugs is an exemplar of being anti-science.

It's amazing that some people remember to breathe.

Ah, this is how the Broligarchs maintain their Internet after they use all their underground bunkers for whatever they're cooking up.

Good news - they might delay that until they figure out how to cool 10GW in vacuum.

Unless they have a new energy source we don't know about for sure publically.

I doubt it's for sale or that they have much of a budget.

Maybe they get paid two hours a day and we get what we get.

Well, yeah, almost every country has a significant tariff regime, so that's a true statement.

SAR is worth reading up on - very clever use of technology and math.

I am concerned that ESA will be in conflict with the political leadership when it turns out that biomass is increasing with the current climate cycle.

We have 20% more biomass now than forty years ago. Nobody is talking about this, yet if 20% of all biomass had disappeared it would be a five-alarm fire in the press.

It's especially heartening that the deserts are shrinking. This is tremendously valuable to the poorest countries and it's because edge-dwelling plants can keep their stoma a bit more closed, making them more drought resistant while engaging in the same amount of respiration.

More data is always welcome - hopefully it gets published.